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That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hedgehogs
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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.
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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.
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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
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Art is emotion without desire.
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With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
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..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?
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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
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It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.
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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
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People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
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We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.
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In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.
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We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others we just meet ourselves.
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The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.
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